I have been seeing a lot of services now with people selling services to ask questions on yahoo answers and then answer witha different account and make a best answer. They would then Ping the URL and bookmark it to social bookmarking sites. They made some decent profit. What do you guys think?
anyone offering Y! answers service using multiple profiles, asking question from one profile and selecting the best answer from another is nothing but a scammer. this is clearly against Y! answers policy and most of the time those answers including question get deleted. if you are gonna be providing a service, then provide a legit service form which your cleints will be benefitted form and you will be benefitted by having some long term clients.
This is a wrong way to increase traffic. This will not benefit you permanently. So be positive and sincere with yourself.
There are already a number of Q&A sites, I believe there are even scripts available if you wanted to start one. The real problem is the moderation, and policing it. Very time consuming, I would imagine.
Waste of time to start a service like that since there is ZERO value in getting fake traffic like that. With that said I do purchase a yahoo answers service now and again but from a person that only answers relevant questions in my market from real people and delivers a high % of best answers. This traffic for me converts better since its real and I see a short term return in the service. Good Luck, M
Yahoo answer is a very good service, but anyone doing what you have said should be banned this must be against the rules. This is spamming and just generating fake traffic. Report anyone you suspect of doing this.
when I was a kid, my dad would get free rotten potatoes from the train yard. Then we would go buy large sacks of good potatoes from the farmers. All day on the weekends (*when we weren't in church of course), we would open the sacks of healthy potatoes, dump them out, insert a stove pipe into the potato sacks, fill around the pipe with healthy potatoes; then fill the pipe with rotten potatoes and slowly pull the pipe out. When we had the sacks refilled, we had twice the amount of good potatoes to sell. It was a super easy way to make a quick buck. Who want's to guess what our Repeat Customer Value was?
THere is a value where your visitors create content, like in the Yahoo Answers model. The problem with a Q&A site is they require heavy moderation.